Astralaria is an iridescent axe that features the effects of stars and constellations in the night sky seeping into the world, a rotating armillary and a sextant with a moving arm on the pommel.

The blade of Astralaria, similar to Twilight & Sunrise, is a window into the cosmos.

Like the aforementioned Legendaries, the blade also leaves a trail when swung.

The constellations shown on the blade look as if they're seeping out into our world.

The centerpiece is an armillary that glows in a multitude of colors and rotates.

The pommel is a sextant, that has a moving counterweight that moves along a gear track. You can hear the sound of the weight as it moves.

The axe has a unique sound effect when swinging with it.

Draw/Stow Effects

Upon being drawn, the axe emits a subtle tone, (intentionally) similar to skill sounds of the Celestial Avatar. This is accompanied by a burst of blue light that emanates from the character, followed by large, nested, rotating golden rings that are an exact replica of the armature of the armillary, and which will surround the character momentarily.

Whenever the axe is drawn and held, any arm holding it becomes imbued with the same cosmic background effect as the one on the axe blade, from the hand up to just under the shoulder, and this effect bleeds out into the surrounding air, diffusing out over the nearest several centimeters, particularly near the area of the hand. Additionally, the wrist receives a persistent, embedded replica of the armillary's armature, much like the one displayed momentarily around the character's body at the moment of drawing the axe, and which appears as an ephemeral set of nested, rotating, glowing golden rings. These rings and their glow overlay the arm's cosmic effect.

When stowing the axe, a tone is played, like that of a device shutting down, as the armillary and the sextant stop moving when stowed.

Footfalls

Astralaria's footfall effect is a white ring, followed by a light blue cloud and underneath is the cosmic effect of the axe on the ground.

The constellations on both the swing effect and on the user's arm when the weapon is drawn are nearly identical to the constellations embedded within the background of the cogs that comprise the building's entrance façade at The Vaults in Lion's Arch.